Chapter 20 and 21

Later investigations confirmed that the Spanish deliberately destroyed the battleship Maine.

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Like Roosevelt, Taft was able to use his political skill to get a lower tariff through Congress.

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McKinley was reelected in 1900 despite losing the popular vote to William Jennings Bryan.

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Muckrakers were journalists who worked first and foremost for politicians—an arrangement that often perpetuated political and corporate corruption.

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Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with Big Business.

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Roosevelt refused to view the world as divided between "civilized" societies and "barbarous" societies.

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Spain refused to consider practically all of the American demands concerning Cuba before the United States declared war.

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The United States practiced global imperialism well before the European powers.

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The United States purchased Alaska from Great Britain

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Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the cornerstone of his program for Big Business.

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Theodore Roosevelt led troops into battle in the Philippines.

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Under Roosevelt, the nation established its first regular federal income tax.

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Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies.

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Woodrow Wilson believed the United States had no right to intervene in the affairs of other nations and, thus, unlike the presidents who had recently preceded him, he never sent American troops into Latin America.

false

Alice Paul encouraged American suffragettes to use more aggressive approaches in their campaign for the vote.

true

Although rooted in the hope of American businesses to dominate Chinese markets, the Open Door policy appealed to anti-imperialists because it promised to prevent the division of China by European nations.

true

Among the varied sources of progressivism were populism and the Mugwumps.

true

An example of a progressive innovation was the recall, whereby corrupt or incompetent elected officials could be removed through a public petition and vote.

true

Between 1875 and 1890, sugar from Hawaii could enter the United States duty-free.

true

During the 1880s, a French company convinced the United States to purchase the partially completed Panama Canal.

true

During the Spanish-American War, more American soldiers died from disease than battle.

true

Progressivism faded as an organized political movement because international issues pushed aside domestic concerns.

true

Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House dinner but gave into the criticism of white southerners and never invited another black leader again.

true

Social Darwinist ideas were used to justify policies of imperial expansion.

true

The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.

true

The purchase of Alaska from Russia for approximately $7 million proved to be a huge bargain.

true

Theodore Roosevelt called William Howard Taft's diplomacy "dollar diplomacy" because he continued to promote American economic interests abroad.

true

Through the Federal Farm Loan Act, Wilson tried to pass the first federal legislation directed to assisting farmers.

true

William Howard Taft viewed his role as president as an administrator rather than an innovator.

true

William Randolph Hearst's efforts to manipulate public opinion during the Spanish-American War came to be called "yellow journalism."

true

Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South.

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